Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-01-28
ST. PAUL, Jan. p, 1887.

While the House was spending an hour
and finally voting down resolution allow
ing each member to have $40 worth of
postage stamps, Serg cant alarms Dayton
was distributing IS worth of postage stamps
legislature has voted it's members a certain
sum for postage usually s10) and the mem
hers would draw the sum in cash and buy
their own stamps or use it as they pleased.
This year the representatives must pay
their own postage, unless the action of to-
day is changed, and the Senate gets its
slice in the actual stamps II the con-
stituents of the Senators don't receive a
goodly amount Of correspondence from the
men they have honored, it will not be for
lack Of stamps. There is a good ideal of
spigot economy in almost every legislature
at the outset, but I have never seen a-legis-
lature in Minnesota start in with watch
dog grip on the spigot without opening
the bung hole very wide before the
sixty days expire and sometimes
knocking in the whole head of the
barrel. Whether this legislature will
develop differently from its predecessors
days from date Speaker Merriam enter
tanned the legislature at his residence last
night, from which splendid view of the
storming of the ice palace could be obtained
Dut IL See1ueu 10 agree VIII CQeu. as only
one excuse for illness was asked to-day. I
was good deal shocked to see Senator
Day offer bill this morning excluding
children under six years from appearing in
public. 1t is considerably less than six
years since attended an editorial cOnven-
where letter was read from Senator Day,
excusing his absence because another Day
had been added to the calendar of time and
didn't look for such restriction from him.
don't think the rising generation in this
rustling country ought to wait six years
before they Cor it, see the inside of a cir
Gus or dime museum. If Senator Day
should get his bill into the shape of a law,
the boys and girls will him vote an iconoclast
and fear may even run over him with
toboggans. | would suggest that his
tee. The report of the commission locating
third insane asylum at Fergus Falls and
mapping out how S24O, 600 can be expended
as starter for the enterprise, was pre-
ented to the Senate. Wondered as heard
read, how many of us would have to 20
crazy to make the new institution pay
Minnesota has been equal to good many
emergencies and will probably come up
smiling to face this one. The House laid
the Senate in the shade to-day in the way
the Senate. There are now IA bills in the
House aAd 1876 in the Senate, & total Of $50
and only eighteen days Of the session have
passed OF course the great majority are
purely cal, many relating to roads and
bridges obaby less p than nifty fifty are Of
be enough come forth before March 4th.
The legislature took it's first vacation to-day,
and probably its only long one, both Houses
adjourning over until Tuesday. This gives
a sns members cnntn1 +6 change 3bs;. to 60 home
the case Of the House where the members
can't send letters because they hare no
postage stamps. s,~scsssssass z Ss:5,=f48
This afternoon there was 4 joint session of
Senate chamber to listen to an argument by
Judge Thomas Wilson, congressman elect
from Winona in behalf Of Senate file. No. 50
introduced ty Senator Bowen. This IS the
same bill introduced by Judge Wilson him
knwon as SENATE file No. T." It passed the
Senate early but was strangled in the house
during the closing hours of the session, the
Hon. James Fl. Drake OF st. Faul. then a
member of the house, taking a prominent
vides for the taxation of certain lands in
southern Minnesota which it is claimed are
held under cover by railroad companies to
avoid taxation, but which in reality belong
to separate corporations. Mr. Drake is not
now member OF the house and am in
formed that he now favors the bill, his inter-
ests having changed in the past two years.
Y mas passed into proverb that ''circum-
stances alter casesn
1, The St. Paul stock yards company ten
dered the legislature banquet at the ner
chants tonight but were unfortunate in Sc.
lecting vacation time for the occasion. The
empty places at the tables were suggestive of
Shakespeare plays with Bacon ommittea-
as Mr.. Donnelly would probably put It. All
the members residing at q distance went
home on the afternoon and evening trains
and only about fifty Of the near by ones re-
manned TO grace the feast. Like all of the